I recently returned from another visit to see family on the Olympic Peninsula.
It’s a place:
- Where picturesque villages line ocean inlets
- Where mountains vie with evergreens for majesty
- Where Mount Rainier can be seen from the Wal-Mart parking lot (look through the cart rack)
- Where wildflowers grow as profusely as gardens
- Where subdivision streets resemble the forest primeval
- Where hikers leave stout sticks for followers to use
- Where large swaths of grass get beaten down, perhaps by the deer that wander the roads
- Where neighbors warn each other about bear sightings.
Thank goodness I don’t have a picture to share on this last point!
But my first day, the neighborhood association sent out an email on what to do if confronted by a bear. And on my last day, the next door neighbor informed us that she’d seen a bear in her back yard in mid-morning.
Where have you seen an abundance of nature’s glory?
Welcome back.
Nice shots, Theresa.
Thanks, Janet.
Theresa, I hope you are well after your family-focused journey.
In answer to your question, because I live in the Pacific Northwest, rural Redmond, Washington to be exact, I see nature’s abundance every day. Just finished my breakfast this a.m. when a mother deer and her two fawns made their daily morning trek through my back yard. Last week a bobcat caused a ruckus when it ambled through my front yard; the area crows warned all crow families within a 5 mile radius to be on the look out. It was the crows’ screeching that drew my attention to the bobcat.
And it’s reasons like this that I still miss living in the Pacific Northwest, even after 40 years.
Thanks for your comment,
Theresa